Calendar device



May 30, 1939. J: H KULQW 2,160,104

CALENDAR DEVICE Filed March 30, 1957 PICTURE NU H I937. MON 2 WED THU FRI SAT 18 JANUARY HA|5E THIS SHEET FOR PAST MONTH! I gwucw'tm "U5 JZhnH/fuZow :l A I 5 351 M 61 M aHOUw HS Patented May 30, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT GFHQE Application March 30,

5 Claims.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the means for mounting or supporting calendars or calendar pads, and it particularly has for an object to provide means 5 for the purposes stated which are free from faulty catches, springs, entangling strings, etc., means which are practical and work efiiciently, means adaptable to most styles of wall calendars, means whose manufacturing cost is low, means which hold calendars straight and rigid so that they do not tilt when the pages are manipulated, means to prevent gusts of wind removing the calendar or calendar pad from its support, and means for the purposes stated which are adaptable to the use of emblems or designs in connection therewith for advertising and other purposes.

Other objects will in part be obvious and in part be pointed out hereinafter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends the invention still further resides in the novel details of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, all of which will be first fully described in the following detailed description, and then be particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a flexible wall calendar such as .are used largely by religious organizations.

Figure 2 is a detail perspective view of a mounting strip such as is used in Figure 1, but without the emblem or ornament I0.

Figure 3 is a face view of a stilt-back calendar with removable calendar pad.

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail section on the line 4-4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a face View of a modification.

Figure 6 is a section on the line 86 of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a section similar to Figure 6 of a further modification.

Figure 8 is a front elevation of a further modification of the mounting strip.

In the drawing, in which like parts bear the same reference number in all the figures, l indicates the wall of a room on which a calendar may be mounted; under former practice the calendar was usually supported by means of a tack or hook, passing through a hole 52 in the calendar back (Figure 3) or by hanging it up by a string (not shown) when the calendar is a flexible one, such as is shown in Figure 1.

The strip 2 is provided with small holes 4 for 1937, Serial No. 133,881

the passage of brads 5 by means of which the strip 2 is secured to the wall I.

In Figure 1 I have shown my invention as used to support a calendar made up wholly of flexible leaves '1 having a space 8 for a picture or other 5 printed matter and having printed thereon the usual month-day-year data, as at 9. The leaves '1 are secured together in a pack by means of any suitable stiffener 5 across the top edge, the stiifener 6 forming an oifset.

The calendar, composed of the pack of flexible sheets i, is placed between the edge hooks or fingers 3 of the mounting strip by grasping the calendar at a suitable distance from its top (say, for example, about three or four inches), plat"- ing first one edge under a finger 3 and then placing the opposite edge under the opposite finger 3, after which the calendar is slid down until the oifset at the top engages the fingers as shown in Figure 1.

If the calendar is .a stiff-back one, as in Figure 3, the back i l is slipped down through the fingers 3 until the ofiset l3 rests on the fingers 3 (see Figure 3) if it be desired to use a mounting strip 2, or the stiff-back calendar may be hung from a nail or hook (not shown) in the wall, passing through a hole or eye i2. Stiff-back calendars H .are usually provided with suitable areas M and I5 for advertising or other data, such as titles and pictures, for example, and the lower portion carries a calendar pad. Usually this pad is fixedly secured to the back ii .and the sheets thereof are designed to be torn off as the months pass. Sometimes the pictures on these calendars are of such character that they are well worth leaving on the wall from year to year were it not for the expiration of the calendar year and the unsightly space left where the calendar pad had been. My invention enables the use of detachable calendar pads on these stifiback calendars, so new pads may be supplied from year to year.

This may be accomplished in several ways. For example, in Figure 3 is shown two suitably spaced short calendar-pad mounting strips 20 with fingers 2i and ends 23 passed through slits 22 in the back i I and clinched over. The calendar pad, made up of sheets It with an ofiset 18 at the top of the pack, is then placed in the fingers 2i and lowered until the offset 18 rests on the fingers.

While of course it is not essential, yet I prefer to provide the December sheet of the pad with a tab or bottom projection 28 on which may be printed a suitable legend, such for example as,

Raise this sheet for past mont and I further prefer to print the month name again adjacent the lower edge of the January to November sheets, as for example at IS in Figure 3. The sheets l6 are provided with any of the usual day-month-year data IT as may be desired.

If desired, instead of using individual short finger carrying strips on the stiff backs ll, strips such as are shown in Figures 5, 6 and 8 may be employed.

If a calendar similar to Figure 3 is used, but having a flexible back in lieu of the stiff back i I, then I provide stiff supports 24 in the form of strips of sufficient depth for stiffening purposes and secure the calendar pad mounting strips thereto. lhe supports 24 are pasted or otherwise permanently mounted on the flexible back, and the calendar pad used as before.

In Figure 5 I have shown the mounting strip 25 having the side fingers 21, as provided with prongs or tangs 2t stamped from the body 25 and, after piercing the support 24, clenched over to hold the mounting strip 25 to the supporting strip 2d,

In Figure 6 is shown how the short finger carrying mounting strips 20 may be used with the support strip 24.

In Figure 8 is shown a modification of the mounting strip, in which the strip 29 has been formed with tongues 3E, 32, which are adapted to be passed through slits in the support and clinched over. Two tongues 3! are formed on the upper edge and one tongue 32 formed on the lower edge of the strip 29, although this number of tongues may be varied.

In order to change the month sheet, Figure 1, to show the following month, the calendar is raised a sufficient distance so that it may be slipped out of the fingers 3; the top sheet I is then folded over to lie at the back and the calendar is replaced in the mounting strip.

In Figure 3 essentially the same operation is effected with the pad, but if desired the top sheet US may be torn off when the month has expired.

The ornaments, emblems l9, etc., may be stamped from sheet metal integral with the strip 2, or may be made separately and secured to the strip in any desired way.

t will be seen from the foregoing: that a calendar and/or calendar pad mounted as shown and described is hung firmly and rigidly; that it cannot tilt while its pages are being manipulated; and that gusts of wind cannot blow it from its fastenings.

If desired, there may be printed on the back I l, beneath the calendar pad, instructions to the user on how to obtain a replacement pad, as for example, Write to John Doe 8: Co. for next years date pad.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, it is thought that the construction, operation and advantages of the invention will be clear to those skilled in the art.

What I claim is:

1. A calendar having a forwardly projecting offset at the top edge of the calendar, and a mounting device having provisions by which it may be secured to a suitable support and including side fingers to engage over the sides of the calendar, said offset being designed to rest on said fingers and said calendar being longitudinally movable in said mounting device while embraced by said fingers.

2. A calendar having a forwardly projecting offset at the top edge of the calendar, a mounting device having provisions by which it may be secured to a suitable support and including side fingers to engage over the sides of the calendar,

said offset being designed to rest on said fingers, said calendar being longitudinally movable in said mounting device While embraced by said fingers, and an emblem carried by said mounting device and projecting above the top edge of the calendar so as to be visible at all times.

3. In calendars, a stiff back, laterally spaced fingers directed toward each other and carried by said back and projecting normal to said back and over the sides of the calendar, and a calendar pad having a forwardly projecting offset at the top, supported by and between said fingers, said fingers extending toward each other over portions of the face of said pad, and said offset resting on said extended parts of said fingers, by virtue of all of which said pad may be bodily lifted up and out of said fingers.

4. In combination with a calendar pad, a supporting strip adapted for permanent mounting in a horizontal position on a suitable support, the ends of said strip having bent-back portions forming side fingers to fit over and embrace the sides of a calendar pad, whereby the pad may be slid up and down between the fingers while being held against forward and backward movement by the fingers, said pad having a thickened portion at the top to rest on said fingers and support the pad thereby.

5. In a calendar, a horizontally extending supporting strip, adapted to be permanently secured to a suitable support, a calendar pad having a forwardly projecting offset at its top, said striphaving its ends bent back horizontally along the side edges of the calendar pad and over the front of the pad thereby constituting fingers and guides in which the pad may be slid up and down, said offset resting on the front portions of said fingers when in use.

JOHN H. KULOW. 

